17-09-2018, 18:50
Capitalism and democracy are essentially contradictory.
Democracy cannot help but be deformed by capitalism, because opinion, information, even truth are up for ownership. In a capitalist system democracy will always represent the interest of capital. It cannot be otherwise. Opinion may shift left and right, the majority might even vote for Brexit and believe that their vote represented free will ........ but in the end the interests of capital, for good or ill, must prevail.
Even if we got it together to leave the EU, which seems more implausible by the day to me, A few years down the line it will be that bucket full of water from which you removed your hand. The water readjusts, it'll be as if your hand were never there.
Democracy cannot help but be deformed by capitalism, because opinion, information, even truth are up for ownership. In a capitalist system democracy will always represent the interest of capital. It cannot be otherwise. Opinion may shift left and right, the majority might even vote for Brexit and believe that their vote represented free will ........ but in the end the interests of capital, for good or ill, must prevail.
Even if we got it together to leave the EU, which seems more implausible by the day to me, A few years down the line it will be that bucket full of water from which you removed your hand. The water readjusts, it'll be as if your hand were never there.